During the PESS gymnastics module this term the children have been learning different body shapes and actions and have been demonstrating them on small apparatus.

We have been investigating the differences between translucent, transparent and opaque in Science this term. The children painted the windows to find out whether light would still shine through.

The children enjoyed selling tickets and performing their own puppet shows.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Year 1 enjoyed this 2 week theme as part of our Spring topic of fairy tales. The children enjoyed bringing their own teddy bears to school to meet their friends. We also made the 3 bears cottage, bear masks and wrote bear stories. To bring the theme to a close we held a teddy bears picnic.

Spring Term Overview -Year 1
The following is an overview of work to be covered during the Spring Term.

Theme - Once Upon a time .........

Language, Literacy and Communication

Re telling traditional fairy tales

Report writing

Dictionary/alphabetical order

Character descriptions

Play scripts / Role play

Reading and spelling sounds: ch,th,qu,ou,oi,ue,er,ar

Plurals

Rhyming poems

Reading and spelling high frequency words

Mathematical Development

Read numbers to 100

Count in 10's from a 1 digit number

Ordinal numbers

Ordering numbers

Pairs of numbers that total up to 10

WeightTime - o'clock, half past

Use simple tables

Name and describe 3D shapes

Adding 10's by counting on

Counting back

1 or 10 more or less

Subtract 1 digit number from a 2 digit

Personal and Social Development

Setting own targets

Feelings and emotions of themselves and others

Importance of rules

Effects of exercise on the body

Welsh Identity

Creative Development

Clay / junk models

Drawings from direct experience

Explore pulse, rhythm and pitch

Sequence, linking, contrasting actions

Designing fruit and veg products

Welsh Language Development

Verbs

Likes/Dislikes

May I have?

Weather

Commands

Physical Development

Bouncing, bowling, dribbling a ball

Run and kicking a ball

Travelling on different body parts

Linking together gymnastic actions

Handling a variety of tools

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

Sorting and describing materials

Magnetism

Transparent, translucent, Opaque

Pushes and Pulls

Washday in the past

Electricity Now/then

Lighting Now/ then

Homes around the World

Addresses

Special People

Different cultures

ICT

Using a word processor

Using a word bank

Using sounds and pictures

Using a programmable toy

Using cameras, video recorders and microphones

Christmas 2008





We used cutters to make Christmas trees and bells out of play dough.



















The children enjoyed using paper mache. Can you guess what it is yet?!











A snowman!!!

Once the paper mache was dry the children painted on the face and added a hat and scarf to keep him warm.

We made cinnamon smelling Christmas tree decorations. We decorated them with ribbon and a bell and hung them on our Year 1 Christmas tree.

All the children enjoyed our Christmas party.
We had a dance , party food and Santa came to surprise us!